Poor Napoleon: Difference between revisions
(update last known performance) |
(update last known performance) |
||
(5 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 28: | Line 28: | ||
|background = | |background = | ||
|first = [[Concert 1986-10-05 Los Angeles|October 5, 1986, Los Angeles, CA]] | |first = [[Concert 1986-10-05 Los Angeles|October 5, 1986, Los Angeles, CA]] | ||
|last = | |last = [[Concert 2023-02-17 New York|February 17, 2023, New York, NY]] | ||
}}{{song quote | }}{{song quote | ||
| quote = | | quote = | ||
Line 55: | Line 55: | ||
{{song covers | {{song covers | ||
|covers = {{ | |covers = {{:Poor Napoleon covers}} | ||
}} | }} | ||
Line 122: | Line 122: | ||
==Internal links== | ==Internal links== | ||
*[http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/bac/bac.htm Elvis Costello Home Page: Blood And Chocolate] {{-}} [http://www.elviscostello.info/lyrics/bac.html lyrics] {{-}} [http://www.elviscostello.info/guitar/bac.html chords] {{-}} [http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/bac/bac_info_a01.htm B&C Info page] | *[http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/bac/bac.htm Elvis Costello Home Page: Blood And Chocolate] {{-}} [http://www.elviscostello.info/lyrics/bac.html lyrics] {{-}} [http://www.elviscostello.info/guitar/bac.html chords] {{-}} [http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/bac/bac_info_a01.htm B&C Info page] | ||
*[[Template: Poor Napoleon|Lyrics]] {{-}} [[ | *[[Template: Poor Napoleon|Lyrics]] {{-}} [[Poor Napoleon covers|Covers]] | ||
==External links== | ==External links== |
Latest revision as of 04:03, 18 February 2023
I can't lie on this bed anymore, it burns my skin |
First known performance: Alternate versions
|
|
Covers
Candypants | performed live, 2003-03-27, EC tribute, Knitting Factory, Los Angeles | 2003 | archive.org |
Moxy Früvous | performed live, 1998-10-31, Ann Arbor, 1999-06-16, Northampton | 1998 | archive.org • archive.org |
Erich Sellheim | home studio production, sung in German | 2019 | YouTube |
Chords
C C/B C C/B C Em/B Gm/Bb I can't lie on this bed anymore it burns my skin F/A Fm/Ab You can take the truthful things you've said to me D/F# F G And fit them on the head of a pin C F Dm G Poor Napoleon C Em/B Gm/Bb You always look so disappointed when I take my stockings off F/A Fm/Ab Don't you know the facts of life boy D/F# F Don't you know what these things cost? C Em/B Gm/Bb She was selling stolen kisses to travelling salesmen and minstrel singers F/A Fm/Ab You put a penny in the slot D/F# F G She called you her magic fingers C F Dm G Poor Napoleon C F Dm G Poor Napoleon E E/G# I bet she isn't all that's advertised Am C I bet that isn't all she fakes D Eb Just like that place where they take your spine F Eb D And turn it into soapfla---akes C C/B C C/B C C/B C C/B C Em/B Gm/Bb Bare wires from the socket to the bed where you embraced that girl F/A Fm/Ab D/F# F Did you ever think there's far too many people in the world? C Em/B Gm/Bb One day they'll probably make a movie out of all of this F/A Fm/Ab D/F# F G There won't even have to be a murder just a slow dissolving kiss C F Dm G Poor Napoleon C F Dm G So good night little schoolboy, you'd better learn some self control C F Dm G C F Dm G Did you mess up your hairstyle, pour scorn in your begging bo---owl C Poor Napoleon